Part of the ongoing Big Tech's War on Users series. Eric Brandwine, VP and distinguished engineer at Amazon Security, told The Register something this week — picked up by The Next Web — that should be obvious and somehow still isn't, in most boardrooms: humans are bad at watching things. Not bad at judgment. Bad at the...

Part of the Big Tech's War on Users series. This one got lost in the shuffle of other stories a couple weeks back, and I almost let it slide. That would have been a mistake. Because while the headlines have moved on, the case hasn't — and what's sitting inside it is worth paying attention to. The DOJ wants Apple,...

Part three of a series. Part one. Part two. TL;DR: The FCC approval queue kept moving. Eero got waved through. Nobody announced any US manufacturing plans. I went and checked the SEC filings. Funny story. Also: who exactly does the government trust, and why? The queue is still moving. Since part two, Amazon's eero...

OpenAI has announced a $38 billion deal with Amazon Web Services, securing immediate access to AWS EC2 UltraServers, hundreds of thousands of Nvidia chips, and the ability to scale to tens of millions of CPUs. This seven-year commitment comes on the heels of a $250 billion agreement with Microsoft Azure that also...